If you were a geologist, you would know that water problems in the west have been known for more than 100 years. Phoenic sor a long time has not allowed any new grass lawn, for example. going back even farther, there was a U.Sl Geological Survey Director who was fired in part, I believe, for saying that the West could easily be overpopulated. http://books.google.com/books?id=XnseCRzNRFwC&pg=PA142&a...